"There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better."
"Hearts Live By Being Wounded"
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."
"I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."
"No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone."